Amity University, Haryana
Inspire
(Innovation
in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research)
Five Day Internship Programme: December 16 –
20, 2014
DAY 3: A Report
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| Dr J P Dudeja, Director, Amity insitute of laser technology addressing students on laser technology |
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| Dr Shubhra das,HOD,Renewal Energy department addressing students |
The third day of the programme started with the Vice Chancellor Prof. (Dr.)
PB Sharma, Amity University Haryana welcoming his ex-colleague Prof. (Dr.) SK
Dube, Vice-Chancellor, Amity University Rajasthan& Ex-Director IIT,
Kharagpur. Prof. (Dr.) Sharma spoke on the growing economy of the nation and
also discussed that with the growing economy we don’t have the sufficient
resources. He discussed on increasing environmental pollution that is causing
Asthma and Cancer. He asked the students to work towards creating a civic sense
in the country. He encouraged and motivated the students by saying ‘you can do
it with science to make a better tomorrow’ as science can do anything and make
impossible come true.
Around 10:15 AM a session on ‘Tropical
Cyclones’ was given by Prof(Dr) SK Dube, Vice-Chancellor, Amity University
Rajasthan& Ex-Director IIT, Kharagpur.
He thanked Prof. (Dr.) PB Sharma and Prof.
(Dr.) Vikas Madhukar for inviting him for this auspicious event. He discussed
on tropical cyclones. Told how cyclones are formed, how they affect and what the
results are. He described tropical cyclone as ‘intense arm core vortex that
develops over Warm Ocean’. He further differentiated between cyclones in
Northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere and explained the structure of
tropical cyclone. Later he explained the difference between severe cyclones and
super cyclones. Focused on ‘Storm Surge’ and showed a small clip related to it.
In the end he asked the students to develop interest in the field of coastal
& oceanic sciences to explore more.
In the end Prof. (Dr.) SK Dube was
felicitated by Prof. (Dr.) Vikas Madhukar.
After the session there was a short tea
break.
At 11:45 AM a session on ‘Miracles in
Biotechnology: achieved and awaited’ was conducted by Prof. (Dr.) SM Paul
Khurana, Director Amity Institute of Biotechnology, AUH.
He started the session by discussing
what bio-technology is and how it benefits us. He talked about the changes that
he has seen in the world. He said ‘Bio-technology can easily meet the critical
societal goals’. He focused on the importance of bio-technology and
applications of it.
Showed his favourite sculpture ‘The
thinking man’ as every second every person is thinking something. Discussed the
Malaria eradication programme which started in India in the late 50’s. Focused
on miracles developed by bio-technology few of them are
Ø DRACO’s
magic spell death for virus. Used against HIV AIDS and can be used any other
virus.
Ø ‘Intefen’
an anti-tumour drug.
Ø `‘Serial
Killer’ will wipe out Leukaemia (blood cancer) within 3 weeks.
Ø A
cousin chromosome acts as 47th chromosome in human cells. etc
He talked on hunger issue in the nation.
Focused on topics such as Green nano-technology, Bio-engineering bugs, Human
cloning, Immortality and Bio-terrorism.
He said ‘Biotechnology is the main
industry of 21st century’. In the end he said ‘for science we say
discover, design, deliver’. Later Prof. (Dr.) SM Paul Khurana was felicitated
by Prof. (Dr.) Vikas Madhukar.
After the session there was a lunch
break.
After lunch break around 2:00 PM
Demonstrations & Experiments in various labs of the Amity University were
conducted. The students were taken to Physics lab, AV AIDs, Nursing foundation
lab, Nutrition lab, Computer lab, Biomedical Device lab and Electrical lab, where
they were demonstrated with different experiments. The students were amazed to
see all the labs as it was their first visit into a university laboratory. They
were amazed to see high-tech equipment’s being used in the labs. The teachers
conducted the experiments and made each student observe individually.
Faculty Coordinator - Mr. Gaurav Arora
Student Coordinator - Meenakshi, Aditya,
Karan Pratap Singh
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